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Legal Experts: Donations to Clinton Foundation are Likely Bribes

Two legal experts tell Breitbart News Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation could be in legal peril for violating United States statutes, as found in 18 U.S. Code § 201 – Bribery of public officials and witnesses.

When asked if the donations to the Clinton Foundation by defense contractors including Boeing (which subsequently received State Department approval of sales of their products to foreign governments) constituted a violation of domestic bribery statues, Law School Professor and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) expert Michael Koehler tells Breitbart News, “I’ll answer that question by quoting a former law professor who was fond of saying ‘if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck chances are it is a duck’”

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andy McCarthy thinks there’s enough evidence for the FBI and DOJ to launch an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton broke federal statutes that prohibit the bribery of public officials.

“There is certainly a reasonable basis for federal agents and prosecutors to investigate whether there was an understanding that Secretary Clinton would be influenced in the performance of her official duties by lavish donations to her family foundation, and, indeed, that the Clinton Foundation was operated as a racketeering enterprise,” McCarthy tells Breitbart News.

“This is the theory on which the Justice Department has proceeded in the prosecution of Senator Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) — in fact, the main difference between the two cases may be that the staggering sums of money that were poured into the Clinton Foundation by supplicants who benefited from Hillary Clinton’s stewardship of the State Department dwarf the amounts involved in the Menendez indictment,” McCarthy continues. (Read more from “Legal Expert on Whether Donations to Clinton Foundation are Bribes: If It Quacks Like a Duck, Chances are It Is a Duck” HERE)

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ANALYSIS: Some People Are Dangerously Obsessed With Hillary Clinton

Photo Credit: Free Beacon Hillary supporters in the D.C. area, for example, recently congregated for a Hillary-supporter happy hour in Arlington, Virginia. Fortunately, the New Republic was there to cover the festivities:

Beth Lilly, 29, remembers the first time she felt like the media was doing Hillary Clinton wrong: It was in 1992, when she was just about six years old, and remembers that people weren’t happy about Hillary’s chocolate-chip cookie recipe …

Nate Maeur, 29, remembers seeing Hillary for the first time on TV when he was young. She was advocating for children’s rights in Africa. “I remember being glued to the TV as a really little kid, watching her, almost being entranced by what she was saying, what she believed in, because it was exactly what my mother was saying,” says Maeur, who runs a workforce development organization. “I’m surprised I didn’t confuse my mom for her, and say—‘Oh, there’s Mom right there.’”

For Clinton’s younger supporters—many of whom, like Maeur, were Barack Obama campaign volunteers—their memories of the scandals and pseudo-scandals of the Clinton years are hazy at best, filtered through the soft focus of childhood. In sharper relief for them are the accomplishments that Hillary has racked up since then—U.S. senator, 2008 candidate, secretary of state—which her young Arlington supporters quickly rattled off when asked why they were backing her. “She’s going down in history whether people like it or not,” says Renzo Olivari, 19, a political science major at James Madison University who hopes to run for office one day. He was still in middle school during the 2008 campaign but remembers watching her speeches at age 12 and getting “emotionally invested” in the Clinton campaign even then.

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The Day-By-Day Clinton Scandal Tracker

Just so you can keep ’em all straight. Summarized and sanitized for your protection!

27-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit

• Clinton Foundation finds itself drawn into FIFA soccer corruption scandal

26-May-2015

• Hillary never disclosed secret shell company funneling income to Bill

25-May-2015

• Did Clinton pay-to-play arrangement hand over port container operations to UAE?

24-May-2015

• Emails reveal Hillary cared so much about Benghazi she slept through intel briefing 4 days later

• Stephanopoulos joined Bill Clinton on Pedophile Island

• The 15 Benghazi emails you need to read

23-May-2015

• Hillary’s Real Benghazi Problem

• Hillary claim she used only one email address while at State? Another lie

• Hillary Deliberately Caused Delay Of Email Release By Submitting Only Paper Copies

22-May-2015

• New Hillary Emails Confirm She Received Classified Info on Private Email

• Hillary Was Pushing For Tax Breaks To Benefit Clinton Library Donors

• Clinton Foundation Had $26M In Contributions It ‘Forgot’ To Disclose

21-May-2015

• Clinton Aides at State Handled FOIA Requests, Not Experts: WSJ

• Hillary can’t shake email controversy

• Does Hillary deserve to be President after jeopardizing national security?

20-May-2015

• The State Department’s In-Kind Contribution to the Clinton Campaign

• State Dept Won’t Comment on Report Cheryl Mills Interfered with Hillary Clinton FOIA Requests

19-May-2015

• Did Hillary Clinton know of Benghazi attack in advance?

• Hillary, “Sid Vicious”, and Libya

18-May-2015

• The Truth About Benghazi Slowly Emerges

• Proof: US Was Running Weapons Thru Benghazi to Syria

• Key Hillary Clinton Claim on Emails Was a Lie

17-May-2015

• Stop me if you’ve heard this one; Hillary took money from more companies seeking influence

• ‘Clinton Cash’ author: George Stephanopoulos guilty of ‘hidden-hand journalism’

• ‘Clinton Cash’ Author Reveals Other Ties Stephanopoulos DIDN’T Admit or Apologize For

16-May-2015

• ABC, Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Staggering

• Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her

• Clintons Earned $30 Million in 16 Months, Report Shows

15-May-2015

• Former Obama CIA Chief: Hillary’s Emails Compromised By Our Enemies

• Guess Who Delayed Response to Stephanopoulos Scoop So Politico Could Publish First?

• Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals

• Stephanopoulos Another Example Of Revolving Door Journalism

14-May-2015

• Clinton Connections Paid Off for Indonesian Tobacco Tycoon

• Former CIA Official: WH’s Story on Benghazi Talking Points Isn’t Credible

13-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation donor can’t explain role in Russian uranium deal

• Alan Colmes: FBI Should Investigate Clinton Foundation

12-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation Donors Fill Hillary’s Campaign Coffers

11-May-2015

• Report: Clinton Foundation Tried to ‘Strong-Arm’ Leading Charity Watchdog

• Federal Court Reopens State Dept. FOIA Lawsuit: “Newly Discovered Evidence” of Clinton Crimes

9-May-2015

• Stunned Reporter Grills State Dept.: Why Won’t Hillary’s Breaches Be Investigated?

7-May-2015

• Why Did a Nigerian Company Pay Bill Clinton $1.4MM for 2 Speeches?

• Clinton Crime Fund Reportedly Took Funds From Human Rights Violators

• Four Clinton Foundation Trustees Charged Or Convicted Of Financial Crimes

6-May-2015

• The Hill-Billy Cash Pump

• Bill Clinton Puts Blame for Family’s Scandals on Accountant

5-May-2015

• The Clinton Foundation isn’t a “charity” in any normal sense of the word

4-May-2015

• Bill Clinton: Foundation didn’t do anything ‘knowingly inappropriate’

• Bill Clinton on Huge Speaking Fees: ‘I Gotta Pay Our Bills,’ You Know

3-May-2015

• The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada

30-April-2015

• The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada

• Hillary Opposed Sending Nuke Tech to India… Until Huge Donations Flowed In

• Benghazi Committee Gets Some Subpoeaned Docs from State Dept.–Two Years Later

29-April-2015

• Benghazi Committee Gets Some Subpoeaned Docs from State Dept.–Two Years Later

• Clinton Foundation spent more on office supplies than on charity gifts in 2013

• 181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary’s State Department

28-April-2015

• Report alleges Clintons personally profited from Hillary’s tenure at State

• The Clintons lower the bar — again

• If This Is the Best Defense of the Clinton Foundation, She’s in Trouble

27-April-2015

• Sunlight Foundation leader: Clinton Foundation a “slush fund”

• So About the Clintons’ So-Called ‘Charity’…

• Who’s Afraid of the Benghazi Hearings?

26-April-2015

• The Fall of the House of Clinton

• Hillary’s Day of Wrath

• Clinton Foundation distributed useless drugs to AIDS patients

• For the Clinton Defense

• ABC & This Week With George Stephanopoulos owe their viewers an Apology

25-April-2015

• Report: Clintons Engaged in Pay-for-Play During Efforts to Rebuild Haiti

• Clinton relatives, donors got rich off taxpayer-funded Haiti contracts

• Clinton Greed

24-April-2015

• Who is really drawing out the Benghazi investigation?

• ‘Hillary Thinks She Is Bigger Than God’

• Hillary now raising funds off of … evidence of her corrupt fundraising

• Muslim Brotherhood Payrolled By Clinton Foundation

23-April-2015

• How long can this train wreck continue?

• Bill Clinton sold us to the ChiComs; Hillary sold us to the Russians

• White House Refuses to Comment on Shady Deal Hillary Made With Russia

• Many Clinton charity donors got State Dept. awards under Hillary

• Clintons Lied on Tax Forms, Claiming No Foreign Money to Foundation

• Oops: Clinton Foundation Re-Filing Five Years of Tax Returns Over ‘Errors’ •

• State Dept. Documents Reveal Concern about Bill Clinton’s Activities with ‘Saudi Entities’

22-April-2015

• Cash Flowed to Clintons as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company

• Former Clinton Employee Tied To Muslim Brotherhood Sentenced To Life In Prison

21-April-2015

• White House Won’t Deny Clinton Foundation Donors Got Special Treatment

• The Latest Available Clinton Foundation Filings Appear Deceptive

19-April-2015

• ‘Clinton Cash’ Reveals Foreign Pay-to-Play Deals with Clinton State Dept.

18-April-2015

• Newsweek: Largest donor to Clinton Foundation has trade ties to Iran

• Cisco Used Clinton Foundation To Cover-up Human Rights Abuse In China

12-April-2015

• Here’s a breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary

9-April-2015

• Hillary Reversed Position on Trade Deal With Colombia After Huge Donation to Clinton Foundation

• Hillary For Sale: At Least $1 Million From Morocco Flowing Into Clinton Foundation

7-April-2015

• Top Spy: Hillary’s Emails ‘Likely’ Hacked by China, Russia, Iran

• How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

• Hillary’s Brothers Unlike Any Others

31-March-2015

• Hillary’s accidental drone email about decorating reveals BIG new problems

• Hillary’s private intel chief Sidney Blumenthal also an illegal lobbyist?

30-March-2015

• Did Clinton’s Backdoor Adviser Illegally Lobby for Putin Ally?

• The long, complicated story of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi subpoena

• Obstruction of Justice – A Must For Hillary

• The Latest Bombshell from Mrs. Clinton’s Lawyer

29-March-2015

• Situation Normal: Hillary Clinton obstructs justice and operates outside the law

28-March-2015

• Get Hillary’s server, it’s now evidence of a potential crime

• GOP: ‘Even Nixon Didn’t Destroy the Tapes’

27-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton Defies Subpoena, ‘Wiped Her Server Clean’

• Hacked Hillary Emails: Getting Fed Intelligence By Her Own Private Spy Service

26-March-2015

• Clintons Received Money from ‘Front for the Government of Iran’

• Did Hillary Run Her Own Intelligence Operation?

• Lawsuit: Clintons are guilty of racketeering, influence peddling

• Business dealings of Hillary Clinton’s brother raise new questions

25-March-2015

• Clinton Nemesis Ramps Up Effort to Get State Dept. to Spill on Hillary’s Tenure

21-March-2015

• Bill Clinton ‘Unaware’ Brother-In-Law on Board of Haitian Gold Mine that Landed Rare Permit

20-March-2015

• Trey Gowdy to Hillary Clinton: Hand Over Your E-Mail Server

• Now Huma Abedin is Being Scrutinized for Possible Corruption

19-March-2015

• Emails sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Clinton

18-March-2015

• State Dept. Employees Who Don’t Sign Separation Agreement Face Dire Consequences

• Hillary committed obstruction of justice

17-March-2015

• Clintonworld’s Self-Pitying Shadiness Returns

• Clintons UAE Quid Pro Quo

• Hillary Clinton’s Top Five Secrecy Scandals

16-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton’s Top Five Secrecy Scandals

• Clintons Cover-Up Team

• Hillary Clinton should face criminal charges

• The “Hillary Was Right to Break the Law Because Republicans Are Mean” Defense

15-March-2015

• Trey Gowdy: House may go to court to get Clinton email server

• On Benghazi, a timeline of State Department obstruction

• Clinton camp issues clarification on deleted emails, claims ‘every’ message was reviewed

14-March-2015

• Valerie Jarrett behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

• State Department contradicts Hillary Clinton’s email claim

• An Open Letter to [email protected]

13-March-2015

• Hillary Is Being Investigated for a Possible Felony

• Clinton Faces Broader Email Deception Issue Involving Entire State Department

12-March-2015

• Did Hillary let friends use State Department gigs as a piggy bank?

• Hillary’s Rose Law Firm Career a Sign of What Was to Come?

11-March-2015

• Hillary’s email explanation is self-contradictory – here’s how

10-March-2015

• The Hillary Email Scandal: Who Profits?

• The Mendacious, Charmless, Painfully Mediocre And Unelectable Hillary Clinton

• Hillary’s Train Wreck Press Conference: Spin, Lies and Unanswered Questions

• Carefully scripted Hillary knocked out of comfort zone

• Internet Catches Hillary in Three Provable Email Falsehoods

• Hillary emerges from behind stonewall for tightly controlled press conference

• Mystery location of Clinton email server seen as ‘matter of national security’

• Hillary Tries To Quell Email Controversy, But Only Creates More Questions

• Trey Gowdy: Hillary’s Server Or Hillary’s Testimony

• Hillary’s brother got the gold mine, Haiti got the shaft

9-March-2015

• ‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’

• Clinton e-mail scandal disqualifies her for president

• Hillary Clinton’s Possibly Fatal Email Mistake

• Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton: What We Musn’t Forget About Benghazi

• New FOIAs Probe Clinton Secret Email System, Lawsuits May Follow In 20 Days

• White House: Hillary And Obama Did Email Each Other

• Why Would Foreign Governments’ Donations to the Clinton Foundation Not Count as Bribes?

• Wealthy at Scandal-Plagued HSBC Have Donated/Bribed $81 Million to Hillary’s Bribery Storefront

8-March-2015

• Gowdy: Huge Gaps Of “Months And Months” In Emails Hillary Turned Over

• Hillary Milhous Clinton

7-March-2015

• Hillary Exposed Her Emails To
Spies… To Hide Them From You

• While Clinton Hid Emails, $6 Billion Went Missing in Her State Dept.

6-March-2015

• State Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see

• FOIA Request for Hillary Clinton’s Email Address Went Missing

5-March-2015

• Hillary fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account

• Server, Serve Her: Clinton Crumbling

• Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Get It

• Hillary’s Brother Gets Exclusive Mining Permit from Haiti After Taxpayers Sent Country Billions

4-March-2015

• Emailgate May Be the Final Scandal to Sink Hillary Clinton

• Hacker Reveals Contents from Hillary’s Private E-Mails and Shows Who She Was Talking To

• Bigger Question: Did Hillary use unsecured email for Classified Info?

• Hillary Clinton leaked e-mail story to New York Times before tweet

• MSNBC: Hillary Personal Email Use at State ‘Staggering’, ‘Shocking’ and ‘Ridiculous’

3-March-2015

• The Hillary Cover-Up and the End of Democracy

• Hillary Clinton’s Private E-Mail Draws Scrutiny

2-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules

• Report: Hillary Clinton Evaded Government Email While Secretary Of State
(See “The Day-By-Day Clinton Scandal Tracker”, originally posted HERE)

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‘Don’t Let Bill Back in the White House, He Abused Women and He’ll Do It Again.’ Paula Jones Warns Against Voting for Hillary

She was the woman who almost brought down the president, with her allegations of sexual harassment.

But 21 years after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of lurid behavior, she is speaking out against Hillary and insisting that his wife is not fit to be President either – because of her husband’s history of bad behavior.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online Jones delivers her own verdict on Hillary’s bid to become president, saying that her husband’s attitude towards women disqualifies Bill from re-entering the White House – while what she calls Hillary’s ‘lies’ disqualify her from the Oval Office.

‘There is no way that she did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband,’ she says. ‘They have both lied’ . . .

Her lawsuit led to Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky being uncovered and led to Clinton being impeached, accused of lying about the nature of his relationship with the White House intern. (Read more from “‘Don’t Let Bill Back in the White House, He Abused Women and He’ll Do It Again.’ Paula Jones Warns Against Voting for Hillary” HERE)

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Email: Hillary Didn’t Know the Name of Dead Ambassador

Photo Credit: Washington Times The night a U.S. ambassador was killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary Clinton sent a message to three senior State Department officials.

The recipients were Jake Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Secretary of State Clinton, Cheryl Mills, an adviser to Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and Counselor and Chief of Staff to the Secretary, and Victoria Jane Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

“Cheryl told me the Libyans confirmed his death. Should we announce tonight or wait until morning?” Clinton says in the email, time stamped 11:38 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012.

The email had as its subject line: “Chris Smith.” The murdered ambassador was Chris Stevens. (Read more from “Email: Hillary Didn’t Know the Name of Dead Ambassador” HERE)

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The Hillary Clinton Rap Sheet Explodes with New Entries

Photo Credit: NY Post By John Podhoretz. Another day, another three Hillary stories — all of which continue the ongoing tarnishment of the Clinton brand . . .

First, Fox News revealed the contents of a Defense Intelligence Agency report written one day after four Americans were killed in Benghazi in 2012.

According to the report, “the attack was planned ten or more days prior to approximately 01 September 2012. . . No YouTube video. No spontaneous demonstration.

Second, The New York Times revealed Mrs. Clinton had a secret private e-mail account through which she communed with her longtime consigliere, Sidney Blumenthal, despite having sworn (though not under oath) she’d only had the one.

Third, Politico reported yesterday that a federal judge has ordered the State Department to start releasing Mrs. Clinton’s e-mails from her time as secretary of state — or whatever’s left of them following the mass destruction of tens of thousands of such communications. (Read more from “The Hillary Clinton Rap Sheet Explodes with New Entries” HERE)

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Hillary Clinton News More Like a Rap Sheet

By Michael Goodwin. Wading through the daily deluge of Hillary Clinton news, I feel like I’m reading the police blotter. The litany of her shameful shenanigans resembles the litany of neighborhood crimes recorded by cops. There are simply too many to stomach.

There is another similarity, too: In both cases, fear and revulsion are the proper responses from honest Americans.

More than 17 months before Election Day, Clinton scandals are piling up faster than robberies during a police strike. There is a media feeding frenzy over her shady dealings and the sheer volume of unsavory revelations is approaching a critical mass. The pace of disclosures probably can’t continue, but already she’s looking less and less inevitable.

Yesterday brought a new batch of bombshells. The Washington Post reported that, in addition to $5 million she earned from her latest book, Clinton earned $11.7 million by delivering 51 speeches since January, 2014. The paper reported that she was paid an astonishing $625,000 for two speeches — in one day!

Stack those facts up against her recent remark that the only answer to income inequality is to “topple” the 1 percent of wealthy Americans, and it’s obvious that she’s long past the point of simple hypocrisy. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Clinton Breaks Media Silence, Answers Reporters’ Questions on Emails and More [+video]

Hillary Clinton, having faced weeks of criticism for ducking the press since entering the presidential race, finally broke her media silence Tuesday, fielding multiple questions from reporters during a stop in Iowa — addressing, albeit briefly, the two controversies dogging her campaign.

On the controversy surrounding her use of a private email address and server while secretary of state, Clinton insisted: “I want those emails out.”

On questions about the transparency surrounding foreign-government donations to the family foundation, Clinton said she’s “proud” of the organization, and the donations just show that others are supportive of the work it does.

While the Democratic presidential candidate’s responses may not have been surprising, her engagement with the press marks a departure from the way she’s run her campaign since entering the race a month ago . . .

Clinton reiterated her push to release the emails shortly after a federal judge rejected the State Department’s proposal to disseminate portions of the emails by next January and said the agency must instead conduct a “rolling production” of the records. (Read more from “Clinton Breaks Media Silence, Answers Reporters’ Questions on Emails and More” HERE)

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Closest Adviser to Hillary Clinton is a “Brazenly Dishonest Cover-up Specialist”

Photo Credit: NY Post If Congress really wants to get to the bottom of Hillary Clinton’s missing Benghazi and pay-to-play emails, it should call her consigliere Cheryl D. Mills to testify — under oath, and under the klieg lights.

. . . Mills, who served as the former secretary of state’s chief of staff and counselor, knows where the bodies are buried. After all, Hillary tasked her with “identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records.”

. . . Since the 1990s, Mills has been at Hillary’s side — first as a White House lawyer, then as her closest and most loyal adviser at the State Department, and now as a key member of the Clinton Foundation board, which is under fire for raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from dubious foreign sources in alleged influence-peddling deals.

The job of damage control has fallen to Mills through a parade of scandals. Her lack of cooperation is legendary. In fact, she’s been officially accused of both perjury and obstruction of justice.

Sworn affidavits, depositions and court rulings, as well as congressional reports and testimony, paint a picture of, to put it charitably, a brazenly dishonest cover-up specialist. (Read more from “Closest Adviser to Hillary Clinton is a Brazenly Dishonest Cover-up Specialist” HERE)

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Clintons Have Made More Than $25 Million for Speaking Since Jan. 2014

2014-06-11t155415z1813105711gm1ea6b1uc101rtrmadp3usa-politics-clintonHillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton earned in excess of $25 million for delivering 104 speeches since the beginning of 2014, a huge infusion to their net worth as she was readying for a presidential bid.

The Clintons revealed their recent income as paid speakers and other aspects of their personal finances in disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday.

Hillary Clinton also earned more than $5 million in royalties for her book, “Hard Choices,” which was released in June.

One of her Republican rivals for the presidency, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, also filed his financial information Friday, revealing a far more modest portfolio. It showed that last year he cashed out his retirement accounts, which were worth between $60,000 and $195,000; a campaign spokesman declined to comment on why. Rubio and his wife hold at least $450,000 in home mortgage debt.

Clinton has tripped politically in addressing her personal wealth, drawing criticism last year for indicating she and her husband were “dead broke” when his term as president concluded in 2001. Though saddled with debt because of legal fees arising from various White House scandals, Bill Clinton’s memoirs and frenetic speaking schedule quickly lifted the couple into the ranks of the uber-wealthy. (Read more from “Clintons Have Made More Than $25 Million for Speaking Since Jan. 2014” HERE)

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What If Michelle Obama Challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination?

HILLARY-AND-MICHELLEMichelle Obama for president? What if she ran against the seemingly impregnable Hillary Clinton?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% of Likely U.S. Voters think the first lady should run for president. Seventy-one percent (71%) disagree, but another 15% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Among black voters, however, 40% think Obama should run, and only 41% disagree. One-in-five (18%) is undecided. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of whites and 59% of other minority voters oppose a presidential bid by the first lady.

In a hypothetical matchup with Hillary Clinton, the putative Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, Obama earns 44% support from black voters to Clinton’s 36%.

Among Likely Democratic Voters, it’s Clinton 56%, Obama 22%. That appears to be a better showing against Clinton than Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the only other announced Democratic presidential candidate, makes at this point. (Read more from “What If Michelle Obama Challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination?” HERE)

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